Category: visual

“In a Cronenbergian melding of inanimate matter and grisly viscera, chairs, mattresses, and even a toilet have appeared on the city’s sidewalks bearing heinous wounds and oozing crimson fluid into the gutters.”

“Perhaps there is something inherently musical in the experience of abstract art.”

“The messages on Fazlalizadeh’s portraits illustrate the range of harassment women encounter on the streets, from invasions of their space or time, to name-calling and unwanted touching.”

The latest in The Toast’s occasional – and delightful – “Women In Art History” series:

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you found us
you found us with your guitar
hey guys he found us and he brought his guitar with him”

“The youngest of the Duchamp siblings, Suzanne Duchamp lived in the famed Montparnasse Quarter of Paris so brother Marcel could help her establish her career (they were perhaps the closest of all the siblings).”

“There was aching concern that lottery projects should be popular. The lottery was played by the people, and particularly poorer people, so its proceeds should go on things inclusive. Which at the same time had to be somehow cultural, improving or educational, to distinguish them from the theme parks, shopping centres and multiplexes that get built without public subsidy.”

“The computer had plenty of important jobs to do, like, as Kirsch told the Oregonian later, ‘thermonuclear weapons calculations and things of this sort.’ But he was allowed to use it to solve other problems, too. And he wondered what it would mean to have a computer look at a picture.”

“Archaeologists with the Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore have discovered the Christian quarter of Ukek, shedding light on the Christian people who lived under the Khan’s rule. Ukek was a multicultural city, where a variety of religious beliefs were practiced including Islam, Christianity and Shamanism.”

Most people assume that classical statuary was mostly of pure white marble, a sort of pure source of Western civilization. But scholars have known for at least a century that most Greek and Roman statues were brightly painted – and now an exhibition in Copenhagen is trying to reconstruct their original appearance.

“I hope this means we are able to come up with another kind of new bold vision that has the potential to be a real game-changer in terms of contemporary art and the way technology impacts contemporary art.”